We Pick Ferns, We Pick Ferns on p.449
River Merchant’s Wife on p. 454
Gazing at Lu Mountain Waterfall on p. 457
Dreaming of Li Po on p.464
Song of P’eng-ya on p. 468
Survey these poems, choose one that you like and feel that you could understand. Have a backup poem in case yours is chosen before you can pick.
Poem selection in 8 minutes
Read your poem and the background for it in preparation of attacks. Become experts on your poem. Remember that your enemies will be asking questions about its meaning, and poetic devices like similes, metaphors, personification, alliteration etc… 10 minutes.
Chose the poem/group that you will attack. Create questions about this poem’s background, meaning, structure or poetic devices that you hope the group will not defend.
Each person in your group will attack your opponent by asking at least on question.
Defending group must have each person in the group answer a question in the round or they shall lose one point per non-respondent.
Defending group earns one point for each successfully defended question.
Attacking group earns two points for each question that the defenders cannot answer.
We Pick Ferns, We Pick Ferns on p.449
River Merchant’s Wife on p. 454
Gazing at Lu Mountain Waterfall on p. 457
Dreaming of Li Po on p.464
Song of P’eng-ya on p. 468
Survey these poems, choose one that you like and feel that you could understand. Have a backup poem in case yours is chosen before you can pick.
Poem selection in 8 minutes
Read your poem and the background for it in preparation of attacks. Become experts on your poem.
Remember that your enemies will be asking questions about its meaning, and poetic devices like similes, metaphors, personification, alliteration etc… 10 minutes.
Chose the poem/group that you will attack. Create questions about this poem’s background, meaning, structure or poetic devices that you hope the group will not defend.
Each person in your group will attack your opponent by asking at least on question.
Defending group must have each person in the group answer a question in the round or they shall lose one point per non-respondent.
Defending group earns one point for each successfully defended question.
Attacking group earns two points for each question that the defenders cannot answer.